2023 AgBioData community workshop

2023 AgBioData community workshop

Dates: May 1-2, 2023
 

Location: Hyatt Place Chicago/O'Hare Airport in Chicago (IL)
 

Description

The AgbioData consortium held a two-day in-person workshop in Chicago (IL) on May 1-2, 2023. The main objective of this workshop was to bring together the working group (WG) members and member database resources to share the progress and achievements made by the WGs and discuss the future directions of the consortium. The event was hybrid with in-person and virtual participation. The session recordings and the presentations' slides are provided below with the workshop agenda.

This event was funded by National Science Foundation Award #2126334.   

Agenda (All times are in Central Standard Time - CST)

April 30, 2023

People arriving at the event venue*

7.30 PM Welcome dinner
 

May 1, 2023 (DAY 1) 

Breakfast (provided by the hotel)

8.30 AM Welcome remarks & logistics 

Session 1 (Recording here)

8.45 AM  Jan Leach (Colorado State University), "Embracing Complexity: Building an International Phytobiomes Alliance"
9.15 AM  Reports from current WGs

• Data Reuse: Alenka Hafner (PennState University), "Data reuse working group: First steps and goals"
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Recruiting: Annarita Marrano (Phoenix Bioinformatics), "How do we address all the aspects of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in AgBioData?"
• FAIR Scientific Literature: Jacqueline Campbell (USDA-ARS), "
  

  FAIR Scientific Literature Working Group"

• Standards for genetic variation: Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), "Standards for Genetic Variation - Current status, challenges, and future directions"
• Sustainability: Shabari Subramaniam (Phoenix Bioinformatics), "Sustainability analysis of AgBioData resources"

10.30 AM  Coffee break 

10.40 AM  Breakout rooms (BRs) -  There will be two sessions (45' each) of in-person and online breakout rooms focusing on suggested topics and questions from the WGs presenting in the morning session.

First session (10.40 - 11.25 AM)

• Data Reuse (online only!)
• Standards for genetic variation (in-person and online separately)
• Sustainability (in-person and online separately)

Second session (11.30 AM - 12.15 PM)

• FAIR Scientific Literature (in-person and online separately)
• DEI Recruiting (in-person and online separately)

12.15 PM  Lightning talks about the breakout rooms' discussion

1 PM Lunch

Session 2 (Recording here)

2.30 PM Report from the ended WGs

• Data federation: Monica Poelchau (USDA-ARS), "Data sharing and data federation in genetics, genomics and breeding databases - Current status, needs and future directions"
• Genotype-to-Phenotype: Sook Jung (Washington State University), "Agricultural sciences in the big data era: Genotype and Phenotype Data Standardization, Utilization and Integration"
• Ontology: Marie-Angélique Laporte (Bioversity International), "AgBioData Ontology Working Group"
  
• Pan-genomes: Gerard R. Lazo (USDA-ARS), "Running the spigot of genomes into the pan era; how should we pool data?"

3.50 PM Coffee break

4 PM Team Coaching activities (in person only)

4.30 PM Round Table "Let's talk about the future of the AgBioData consortium" (in person only)

6.30 PM Dinner 
 

May 2, 2023 (DAY 2)

Breakfast (provided by the hotel)

Session 1 (Recording here)

9 AM Jason Williams (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DNA Learning Center), "It’s Impossible to Keep Up – Career-spanning Learning in the Life Sciences"
9.30 AM Reports from current WGs

• Data Federation Training: Peter Selby (Cornell University), "Data Federation Training Group - Updates and Vision for the Future"
• Education: Meg Staton, "Learning how to be FAIR: Open source education tools for AgBioData"
• Genome Assembly and Annotation Nomenclature: Kapeel Chougule (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), "Gene and genome nomenclature - Current status, challenges, and future directions"
• Public Genetic Resources: Moira Sheehan (Cornell University), "Updates from the Public Genetic Resources Working Group"

10.30 AM Coffee break 

10.45 AM Breakout rooms (BRs) -  There will be one session (45' each) of in-person and online breakout rooms focusing on suggested topics and questions from the WGs presenting in the morning session.

• Data Federation Training (in-person and online separately)
• Education (in-person and online separately)
• Genome Assembly and Annotation Nomenclature (online only!)
• Public Genetic Resources (in-person and online separately)

11.30 AM  Lightning talks about the breakout rooms' discussion

11.50 AM Closing remarks

12 PM Lunch